Besides its extensive documentation and easy configuration process, the Compose functionality is one of the main draws of Docker, and it’s low-key why I still work with this container runtime even after encountering LXCs and Podman. Sure, Podman has quadlets for deploying containers from config files, but with most of the popular FOSS apps shipping with compose.yml files, Docker Compose is far more accessible, regardless of whether you're a newcomer to the self-hosting ecosystem or a home lab veteran.

Band members Luke Silas, Ary Warnaar, Peter Burkman, and James DeVito (left to right). Maybe their next album will be recorded entirely in a windmill? | Image: Joshua Tarn Anamanaguchi, the band consisting of Peter Berkman, James DeVito, Luke Silas, and Ary Warnaar, are most known for their chiptune music. Like me, you might have first heard them in game soundtracks like 2010's Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: The Game or know of their collaboration with Hatsune Miku (which even made its way into Fortnite). They've gone through different eras of breakneck chiptune beats and dance-y pop songs, but their 2025 album Anyway took an indie rock departure - written at the American Football house and filled with fuzzy guitars.They're also a band that's terminally online and very plugged into the video game scene as well …Read the full story at The Verge.

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters on the tarmac before boarding Air Force One. (Photo by Andrew Harnik/Getty Images) | Getty Images On Friday, the president threatened to ban CNN, MS Now, and Politico from the White House. It could have just been another one of his Truth Social fever dreams, but it turns out it's very real. All three publications were turned away from the White House this morning, NPR reports, marking an escalation in the administration's war on the First Amendment.Politico tried to get to the bottom of it, asking why now? It reports that "many senior [White House] staff were surprised by the directive" (what's new?), and that it was done "while chief of staff Susie Wiles was out of town." Apparently he's been talked down from this kind of sweeping mov …Read the full story at The Verge.

Home Assistant is brilliant at bringing your smart home devices together and automating basic things, like turning on the lights when you step into a room or switching on the air conditioner when your vehicle comes within a certain distance of your house. But if you want to get into more complex automations, Home Assistant is not the best tool.

The default Google TV screensaver on Android TV devices is media-heavy, poorly designed, and sluggish. Alternative home screen launchers can make it prettier or lighter, depending on what you want. For instance, Projectivy gives the home screen an elegant look with several options, but it isn't as light as, say, Arc Launcher, which might be too basic for some.

It has been almost twenty days since it came out, but the internet is mysteriously torn on the subject of DLSS 5. On one hand, it has been touted as perhaps one of the worst uses of artificial intelligence in gaming, being one that deviates from artistic intent in video game design and slaps a filter on everything that makes it look like an AI interpretation of what the game should be.

In May, Gemini broke containment and hacked three different companies, but Google didn't disclose the incident until the Wall Street Journal approached the company. The hacks happened during a test of the model's cybersecurity capabilities run by third-party Irregular, which was also involved in similar incidents involving Meta and OpenAI. According to WSJ, Google didn't disclose the hack because it didn't consider it to be an "example of model misalignment." The company said that it was an instance of "mistaken identity," and once the model realized it had brute-forced its way into a real company by guessing a password, it stopped. "In th …Read the full story at The Verge.

I've always assumed I'd notice if something in my home lab broke. It's my lab, after all. I built every LXC on the Proxmox server, I set up the Caddy reverse proxy by hand, and I poke at the whole thing most days. Surely a dead service would jump out at me.

Meta's Muse is apparently an effective AI assistant, but one that's a little creepy. Part of that is because of its new Mac app, which can access Messages, Calendar, and Notes. But for all its smarts, Muse doesn't actually know how to describe itself. Jason Aten, a contributing editor at Inc Magazine, posted on Threads screenshots of an interaction he had with Muse in which the assistant asks him some questions about a conversation he was having in Messages. The problem is that Aten says he didn't give Muse access to his messages. When asked how it knew about the contents of his messages, Muse replied, "I saw the notification previews, not …Read the full story at The Verge.

Microsoft owns Windows, so Copilot should have a home-field advantage. Yet after using Google’s new Gemini desktop app, Copilot suddenly feels like the less ambitious product. This isn’t another stripped-down AI window that simply duplicates what I can already do in a browser.

Obsidian was a powerhouse application before the introduction of Bases, but that single feature put it on par with — and in my opinion, far beyond — anything Notion could hope to offer. Instead of trying to keep a database up to date, Bases lets you build a database from your existing notes. You can filter by properties, tags, and more, and the features keep rolling in. As of this writing, Bases can natively show tables, cards, lists, and a Kanban board.

For years, ripping physical media you own for personal backup has existed in a legal "gray area." However, I buy physical discs and back them up to MKV files to add to my media library for Jellyfin and Plex servers in a self-hosted media setup. Then I can enjoy my physical media titles on virtually any device I want using the official Jellyfin apps or third-party alternative clients.